TY - JOUR AU - Milks, Kirstin AB - BOOK REVIEWS AMANDA GLAZE-CRAMPES, DEPARTMENT EDITOR by discovering exotic species to sell to insti- “by studying his notebooks and the many tutional and private collectors. The latter specimens he had gathered years earlier on ambition foundered, literally, when the ship his voyage on the Beagle” (p. 52), since he bringing Wallace back to England caught also relied on specimens and observations fire and had to be abandoned, along with from a wide network of correspondents. In the bulk of Wallace’s painstakingly acquired the glossary, the definitions of extinct and specimens. species are wrongly confined to animals and “Wallace vowed that he would never plants, and the definition provided for com- venture to sea again,” Dorion wryly mon ancestor is actually a definition of most observes. “But within days of being back recent common ancestor. home, he was already thinking about his The handsome oversized volume is next expedition” (p. 23): to the Malay appealingly illustrated by Harry Tennant, Archipelago (1854–1862). That next expe- who mainly uses a limited and subdued dition was more successful, both financially palette of blues, browns, and greens, even EVOLUTION and scientifically. Wallace collected more when it must have been a temptation to Darwin’s Rival: TI - Furthering Education JF - The American Biology Teacher DO - 10.1525/abt.2021.83.5.346a DA - 2021-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/furthering-education-FMGC506NVC SP - 346 EP - 347 VL - 83 IS - 5 DP - DeepDyve ER -